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Spinning in Infinityby Joshua Corin
After a brutal battle leaves their starship crippled and life support failing, four crew members debate whether they are real or merely simulations and must decide whether to keep fighting for survival or sacrifice themselves to save the 'real' people their existence was designed to protect.
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mother's Gavelby Jesus Gonzalez
A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rainy Night Killerby Doug J Robbins
The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
CareMoreby Michael Avishai
A drugstore employee exploits a customer loyalty program to stalk a woman, exposing how corporate systems designed to "care" can enable predatory behavior to hide in plain sight.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sing Me Your Questionsby Steven T. Smith
Not long ago, autistic people were thought to have IQs lower than room temperature. Then a down-on-his-luck businessman-turned-social worker stumbled upon something that changed everything. Inspired by a true story.
Genre: Other
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Babbleby Kevin Pacey
Anonymous online abuse invades the real world and a vulnerable woman suffers a deadly attack.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
4th of Julyby Katoya S Lowe
In the dark era of circus slavery, an albino woman forms a bond with a captive elephant to launch a devastating revenge against the cruel owners who murdered her twin brother, executing a bloody reckoning on the 4th of July.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Between The Treesby Shariq Ali khan
Bullied at school and burdened by low expectations at home, 13-year-old Basheer believes a mysterious pink guava has unlocked his hidden intelligence after his grades suddenly improve. When the tree bearing the fruit is cut down, his newfound confidence collapses, sending him on an emotional quest to find another. Through his search, Basheer slowly confronts the power of belief, self-worth, and the fragile hopes that shape a child's journey to growing up.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dutchess Greenby Joseph Brown
The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Behind the Glassby Dewayne
A guilt-ridden 911 dispatcher receives a whispering call from a kidnapped woman who may be trapped inside the same municipal building where he worksbut when the caller's abductor reveals a deadly experiment targeting emergency operators, the dispatcher must break the very protocol that once cost a life.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Renewalby Darryl N. Layne
A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clown Sightimgby Doug J Robbins
A good Samaritan gets in a fight with a killer clown on Halloween night.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Break Inby Jane Tumminello
Two teenage guys set out to break into a house, but just as they're about to go inside, they come upon something horrific they never expected.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby Jason K. Allen
Bill only wants to catch a few fish for dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Proof of Serviceby Lantie Foster
Two neighbors in corporate housing share a home service robot. When one woman misses a payment, the building's "care" protocols activate, and the apartment begins asserting ownership over everything, including her.
Genre: Sci-Fi
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Revelation/Armageddonby Darryl N. Layne
When a newly elected president is revealed to be the prophesied Beast, his step brother must confront demonic forces, global chaos,and a world torn between faith and fear, racing against time to stop the rise of evil and restore good before all is lost to satin.
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Life-changing Injuriesby Barry Staff
A commuter just wants to complete his train journey home, but needs to handle the horrendous events standing in his way.
[A single-location, one-actor scenario, shootable in a day, about a pointedly existential situation.]
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Devil's Bargainby Cassandra Wells
When Soho, a 17th century Caddo (Native American), becomes painfully aware of what fate awaits her people with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors into what will become Texas, she enters into an unholy alliance with an Old World witch who has been "imported" from Europe to exact a fitting vengeance upon the merciless interlopers.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Winter Meetingby Michael G Holmes
Four baseball executives brainstorm increasingly absurd ways to make Major League Baseball more exciting for a new generation, only to have the simplest solution come from the maintenance man changing a light bulb.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
United We Fallby Elliot Stanton
The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for - a fact that his friend positively revels in.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Roadsideby Brian Wallace
A couple's roadside rescue of a mysterious woman spirals into a nightmarish encounter with her vengeful, murderous boyfriend, revealing her own dark past.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
King Sizeby Paul Weidknecht
Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Transferenceby Frazer Lee
Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Frank Sinatra's Hatby John McWilliams
A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Flowers for Lilyby Candy Fox
Three grieving beings - a man, a woman, and a dog - find a glimmer of hope for a path forward, in the unlikeliest of places - a cemetery.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Los-T (In) Angelesby Noureddine HIFAD
A desperate aspiring writer and a struggling actress fake their way into a Hollywood party, where one stolen opportunity could either launch their dreamsor expose them completely.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemptionby Jack Halliday
An innkeeper's resourcefulness saves herself, and her family, from destruction, through her audacious act of faith in this Bible based script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby John Alexander Fraser
A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lila Monroeby Lucy Versallies
A missing persons case takes a sinister turn when a detective realizes the victim's family has been lying about the timelinemasking a disturbing secret that keeps the girl closer than anyone suspects.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby Craig Ford
After a stolen moment of tenderness, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must either shut down and survive or risk death by holding onto love inside a system designed to erase him.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mindy & Martin's Meleeby Harker Jones
A bridesmaid and a best man derail a wedding when their simmering resentments and passions boil over, igniting a powder keg of accusations, declarations and revelations.
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Group Chatby Dwayne Craig Bricker
After an unremovable number joins their group chat, five friends receive photos from inside their homesand a countdown demanding they confess what happened at the lake.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cage For Twoby Darryl N. Layne
After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.
Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Locked Roomby KS Punithakumar
Waking up disoriented in a windowless, concrete room with only a speaker on the wall, a confused man must piece together his missing memories of the previous night while an unseen voice interrogates him.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chameleonby Kevin Pacey
Life on the line, a teenage girl locks horns with an eccentric pensioner and learns to trust again.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Going To The Topby Matthew Belopavlovich
During the Gay Rights Movement in 1980s California, James and Thomas take a popular theme park to court after experiencing discrimination for dancing together and later, start a LGBT advocacy magazine.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Marxby Barry Staff
Re-materialising today in mutual haunt Soho, London, Groucho Marx and Karl Marx find both want capitalism finally laughed into oblivion, but as they conflict over methods to use, they try to locate the one place where Karl was listened to before.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Her Faceby Marc Prey
Set in an alternative reality in which no one is permitted to show their face (masks are required from birth), one teenage boy begins to question the way things are after meeting a rebellious teenage girl.
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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